[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, tens of thousands of war date in matter. you pull a loan. that's the estimate of ukrainian president followed me to landscape after weeks of russian shelling, which have reduced the southern port city to rubble. it's thought of tens of thousands of people are still trapped in matter. you pull. germany's foreign minister says ukraine needs more heavy weapons at a meeting of your colleagues. berlin has been criticized for being too slow in

providing military aid. also coming up a new leader for pakistan, chabad sharif is elected as the countries knew, prime minister after a week, long constitutional crisis sharif now faces the task of restoring political and economic stability. and in france, a repeat of the 2017 presidential election runoff. centrist leader and manual, my client comes out on top in the 1st round of voting, but he faces a strong challenge from far right candidate, mckinley pen. ah, i'm pablo foliage. welcome to the program. ukrainian president volunteered to lensky, says it. tens of thousands of people may have died in the besieged city of mattie. you pull, he may be unverified claim, and a call to south korean lawmakers where he appealed for more weapons. the port city

matthew pole has been under relentless, russian bombardment for weeks with many buildings destroyed and basic services cut off. meanwhile, russia now appears to be focusing its military efforts in the break way. don, boss, region, local pro russian leaders there have warned that efforts to quote, liberate the region will be intensified while we are joined now by our correspondent, alexander phenomena who is in keith. i. alexandra, good to see you. now at tens of thousands of people may have been killed in russia's assault on the southeastern city of mattie, you pull as president lansky said, could you tell us more on that president zalinski spoke about said the humanitarian disaster about the situation unfolding in a city of my yoko, when he was addressing south korean lawmakers and we have to stress that the city has been under almost constant shelling by the russian forces since the beginning of the war. and as you just mentioned,

tens of thousands are still trapped there without water electricity, without foods. and of course now we can assume, and that is what the ukranian government is anticipating that the russian forces are preparing for a major offensive there to capture the city of new pool. and to take control of the whole de ned screeching to establish, to secure and lend bridge between their forces in the eastern part of ukraine and their forces in the, in the next crimea. and that is why the government of ukraine is so alarmed that the situation in my you pool could get worse and that the life, all, all of the people trapped there are of course, at stake. now, alexander, russian forces left a trail of destruction following their withdrawal from the north. now you've been visiting those areas. tell us a little bit about what you've seen there. well,

yesterday we visited the city of cheney here, sir. north of a key of the city was under a russian thieves for many weeks and for, for almost 2 weeks, the city was completely cut off from the outside world and people there, they didn't have water, they didn't have electricity. people there told me that there was suffered from hunger that they went on for 3 days without eating anything. many parts of churney heaved a word destroyed among them, squirrels, a hospital residential areas, but judge for yourself. here's our report from tourney. heath the city of journey his after weeks of siege and have his shelling by russian forces. we meet svetlana and valentino sapient coin a local hospital where they survived, but were both injured in an air strike that hit their house for the ballistic

wounded some while ago took less than a 2nd. loosely, sweet. we just heard a whistle here greet gloom. lea symbol i screamed get down was uncovered. my son simona glue, savoy. he's in school. valentin still has surgeries ahead of him. svetlana is doing a little bit better. she shows me pictures of their house before and after the attack. this done up on why did they attack us? i don't know. we didn't do anything bad where civilians are stopped at gwinnett love. the hospital itself was not spirit either bought and rush sheila, the hat of the trauma center here, tells us after russian strike his team struggled to keep going through all before we worked without water and electricity will in the wood headlamps on and took care of those seeking medical assistance also, it was very hard on me,

but we stayed here and did what was necessary. raleigh williams social will next. and the situation worse than when russian forces completely encircled the city residents tell us journey heath and you are to weeks of russian siege. and just burly came through. water and electricity were almost completely cut off. no age could come in. local officials say at times the city buried up to 100 people in a single day. some of them were killed by russian troops. others died because they could not reach the hospital due to heavy shelling. in their local morgue, edward slept place using refrigerator trucks for the bodies that still needs to be identified or pick up by relatives. elizabeth or they were you follow. many people left the country to escape the fighting because they are not in ukraine for them and cannot get back to bury their relatives, came from warner. so that's why there are still many bodies here heard of her other

listen, it was that would be those who come here to claim their loved ones are overwhelmed by grief. mac egos, family, he was a husband, a father, a brother, shut debt by russian soldiers. and if he was the best buy that he could have, i was so proud of him. and now something this terrible has happened to us. mother wouldn't. death and destruction is all that is left after the withdrawal of russian forces from trim, the heath. and what those who survived your most is that the russian army might return. some dreadful images there. alexander, now, given the atrocities that have come to life in areas under siege by the russians, is the ukrainian government still willing to negotiate with moscow on ending this war. chile,

they are even though the ukrainian president has repeatedly stressed how difficult, how hard it is to consider resuming talks with the russians because of what happened in boucher bra, junker chimney heath. however, he also said that even it, even though it is a almost impossible to imagine, to talk to somebody who is torturing your country as he put it, it is important to seize any pulpits, unity to, and this war. and that is, of course, what everyone here wants to see this war ended. however, we also have to add that so far talk 3rd between the russian and the ukraine delegation has not brought that they have not brought any results. alexander, a phenomena in cave. thank you. well meanwhile, european union, foreign ministers meet in luxembourg to discuss ways to expand their support for ukraine. you foreign affairs commissioner 2 separate l has already proposed an

additional 500000000 euros in weapons and other military equipment. ministers are also expected to make further steps on sanctions and to plan to face out russian. oil imports faster. the e u announced a ban on russian coal last friday. and the head of the meeting german foreign minister, angelina bare bach, said what ukraine needed right now was more military personnel and heavy weapons. asthma, may i slightly, that the horrific pictures that we're seeing. the tara, we see daily make clear that ukraine needs further military support to defend itself. we're doing that together with our international partners hines and with our european partners. we're providing millions more via our european piece facility, throughout european piece vicinity. about us plot. what is clear? ukraine needs further military personnel and most of all heavy weapons. there's no

time for excuses. now is the time for being creative and pragmatic won't cut market for more. i'm now joined by t w's, chief political correspondent, melinda crane. hi, melinda. good to see. are we seeing another shift in german policy with regards to the war in ukraine? that is unclear. germany is absolutely under pressure to act a pressure from outside the country, but also pressure from citizens here at home. who say the government is not doing enough at the beginning of the war. but chancellor schultz was in fact, widely praised for a speech in which he declared the invasion, a watershed that called for complete reorienting of german defense and foreign policy. and the government did, in fact, after that, make some arms deliveries to ukraine and looked like it would be willing to step up to the plate. but a 6 weeks later, schultz and his government are now being criticized for not taking more proactive steps when it comes to heavy weapons,

which in fact is what ukraine has repeatedly been calling for in the past couple of weeks. and this is where the creativity comes in that was mentioned by germany's foreign minister because there are, in fact, dozens of tanks, apparently sitting around unused on the site of the rhine, mit towel, german defense company. and these could theoretically be swapped out for tanks currently in use. by the bonus fair and those tanks, the blend is fair, has at its disposal could then theoretically be sent to ukraine. however, the chancellor has repeatedly been equivocating when it comes to heavy weapons and there is, there are reports that both the found foreign minister and her green party colleague the economics and climbed mister robert habit, are dissatisfied with the government positions so far. they haven't spoken out openly, but certainly between the lines we are hearing on a lena bear buck in that,

in that quote, just now saying, germany needs to do more. let stop doing business as usual. that was d, w 's, chief political correspondent, melinda crane. well, here are some other headlines on the war in ukraine. ukrainian president vladimir lansky spoke by phone with the german chancellor of schultz on sunday to discuss further sanctions against russia. polanski said he was glad that germany had strengthened it, strengthened it's support of ukraine, but continued to lobby shells to put a band on russian energy importance. if you would use guns, a little newman, austria and chancellor academy hammer has begun a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the war in ukraine. the meeting follows a weekend visit, buying a hammer to the ukrainian capital keith as a militarily neutral country. austria is hoping to act as a mediator in the ongoing crisis. while hundreds of children have been killed and

wounded since the start of the war in ukraine and many thousands more have been traumatized by the violence they've witnessed. but there's only limited capacity for professional treatment with many facilities destroyed or evacuated because of russian attacks. dw correspondent young philip shells visited a children's psychiatric clinic in the western city of leave, and spoke to some of the young patients there. when words failed pictures, sometimes help for weeks live eats largest. psychiatric cleaning has been treating more and more children with severe waterfall. thus elaina comes from cloud. keith, she saw rockets destroy her home toned and kill many people. she was evacuated, but her parents remain in the embattled city. what are you drawing ride? no. this is the ukrainian flag way. i your drawing the ukrainian flag and because we will win him. the therapist say that's drawing helps many children to process their experiences. they often cannot talk about it. but even small children

perceive the terrible things around them. i will movies, will you? my parents and grandparents often try to gently explain to the children what is going on. well then sometimes they act like it's all just an exercise of the game or something. but then the children reply, no, we live in a war. this is a real war. i'm here again, watch hertz, the doctor. most the children are constantly searching for explanations for the horror. and many begin to doubt themselves. really begin to do sometimes the kids think that this has something to do with their behavior. that it just happened because they did something wrong with what did we then try to explain to them that they live in a free, independent country. we didn't break any borders, we didn't behave aggressively towards other countries. so it's not their fault at all. you can even come across to them. the children often have sleeping disorders who would sway since become

a prophetic. many ask every day if they can ever go back to their own lives. i'm so sorry about my country. i used to live in such a beautiful city. now everything is destroyed. oxen, us, t and tries to reach out to the children with games and music. and they are often amazed about the resilience of the young patients whenever they sleep. but then sometimes we ask ourselves, who was treating whom old, are we treating them or as a treating us, can we get works in both directions? yeah, they give us so much of a if they weren't with us, we would be much worse off more than i bought it up to low son that has learned through her work that dr. sort of gift children false hope. the situation is bed. and unfortunately, the most innocent of all, we'll probably have to live with this for a long time on a spring and pete, while she's ukraine, country director for the charity, save the children and joins us from living in western ukraine. pete, great to have you want

d w. now i understand you spent the past couple of weeks in the embattled east of ukraine. tell us about your experience there. so absolutely, and not really you'd like to concentrate on one experience in nicolai's, nicolai's as a bessie city up until a few days ago. and but regular e receives heavy bombardments and artillery and rockets attacks. and we actually visited the children's referral hospital in mc alive and, and just previous nights only, and 10 it's reported to 10 rockets will motors or artillery landed in around the hospital facility itself. damage in the children's operating theatre and at the very time that the explosions to place, there were actually 2 children, a young girl of 9 years old, and a young girl, a 15 year old, one was receive in surgery to remove some trutland from her stomach. the oven was receive in a surgery to remove a bullets both from previous attacks armed and but unfortunately i,

when the rockets exploded, they then suffered 2nd re blast effects and consequently went into intensive care. and for, for long periods, it was life threatening. but i'm really pleased to hate to tell you to day that we've just got the message from the hospital. the both children are now stable and are on the road to recovery. certainly great news paint and out this war is hard for adults to cope with what sort of special challenges to children face in dealing with it. well, any war is warren children and a war on the rights of children. you know, war prevents and denies children from their right to a, a quality learning environment, a good education. it did nice children to be protected. and as we saw in mc alive, it denies children to receive the health care that they need. and w chose already reported just yesterday that 103 health care facilities and hospitals have been the tags. in this war, along with, from the ministry of education,

we hear that 928 schools have been attacked and destroyed. now with no end in sight, for now, at least to this war, what can be done to better protect children in you can in ukraine and prepare them at for what's still to come. what was he or she monetary partners? especially those the child focus will do everything they can, where they can do to support children and protect them and get them the learning they needs. i'm the health care they need, but ultimately we call upon all parties that the obligations it his monitor and all must be upheld that we should we ask for an immediate cease fire and to enable humanitarian partners to get access to places like mario poll due to cock give, so that we can get these much needed age and life saving services to children and their families. that much of ukraine's basic infrastructure,

including health and education is being destroyed. tell us a little bit about how it's impacting the ability to actually provide essential care for children in this situation. no, absolutely. so children, along with their families are on the move, you know, this over 7000000 displaced families right across ukraine, that a lot of them had to abandon all the belongings and their homes. and after sets up in reception or transit locations with transit sites. and at these sites and many of them for children, they're not able to access education. the minister of education at prioritizing what is so online learning. but in order for children to receive the online learning, they've got to have access to internet and $2.00 and $2.00 tablets or laptops devices which, which they can then obtain this learning. and that's something that some say which is jeffrey, go to prioritize along with the mental health and psychosocial support for these children that have been really affected and traumatized, pete welsh, ukraine, country director for the charity,

save the children. thank you. thank you. pakistani lawmakers have just elected a new prime minister, shabba sharif sharif was the only contender after the party of iran con, withdrew its candidate and resigned in protest. more than 100 lawmakers walked out of the national assembly head of the vote. the election was called after him. i can was asked by a vote of no confidence on sunday. well, for more i'm joined by samuel shams from our asia department in bon ayesha mail. now opposition leadership as sharif, is elected as the new prime minister. tell us a little bit about what went down at today. well, ostrich prime minister m brown, con spotty, resign and moss. and now they will try to increase russia on the new government. i suppose took to the streets last evening across the country in big numbers,

and they're all saying that han was ousted on the basis of foreign conspirators spearheaded by the us. that the u. s. wanted him out. so as supporters are chanting slogans against the army chief come or java boshra. and they are saying that these people, the opposition alliance has been supported by the us. it's an important government . they the said in the claim of dot has been the controversy so far, which has not been validated independently. but now that she boston, he is prime minister. i understand the pond will try to put pressure and that's why the resignation skim today. right will tell us a little bit more about him. what can we expect from him as prime minister? i will ship boss to leave is or the younger brother do. former prime minister in the vase should eve, who is in exile in the you care? the moment sham bastard,

if himself was chief minister of the punjab programs, he is the very able the person. he's a very good manager administrator under his chief minister ship the punjab proven sprogs. it's a lot so he knows how to deal with the economy. he knows how to have a good revision with the military, the powerful military in clarkston, georgia bastard eve is an able, a competent administrator. and possibly he can not lift bug. as donald of this christ open will tell us actually a little bit about it. you've just touched on a thera crisis. what will be the biggest challenges for at the new government? the main challenge now is that con will not lead. does government govern easily? he will take to the streets, to supporters are already on the streets and he will continue to put pressure on this new government. what con wants is fresh elections, although this is and indict him government itself. but they want to have a literal reforms,

and possibly they want to hold elections in 6 to 9 months. hon wants elections. now . hon wants elections now because hong believed that if the election stiffness, now he has a better chance of winning it. and if there are look golden farms, and if they are held off the 6 to 9 months, it is possible that he won't be able to keep up this momentum. and d u. s. momentum that we see now on the streets of pakistan, shamile shams from r t, w asia department, and bon thank you. thanks for having in france emmanuel, my claw has emerged as the clear front runner after sunday's 1st round of voting and the country's presidential election results published by the interior ministry . give my conte just under 28 percent of the vote. is far i challenger mountain le pen ever received over 23 percent. both contenders now go through to the 2nd round . on april 24th. 10 other candidates from across the political spectrum have been

eliminated. though my call did not come out on top in this 1st round, the pen dramatically or inches or he did come out on top in this 1st round, le pen dramatically narrowed the president's lead in opinion polls. ah, he may have won the 1st round. but for a manual microphone, this was no time for a victory lap. don't, don't be seen. nothing is decided is we barely a month ago, micron looks like a shoe in. instead, the incumbent president ended up in the fight for his political life, with critics accusing him of focusing on global crises rather than the ones at home . at to a little bit to you. to all those who chose to abstain or to vote on the extreme server, because i want to convince you in the coming day 70, that our project is a much stronger respons sorted out of the far right lot. and there scare munger. it

would iffy you don't. you can count on yama growing anger of a rising inflation created an opening for the populace marine le pen as she softened her image as a far right nationalist and re cost herself as a champion for struggling households. now that have been a duly during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. either the division, the injustice and the disorder, imposed by men or my call for the benefit of a few or the gathering of the french people around social justice and protection. guaranteed by fraternal framework around the age old idea of nation and people millionaire the unless you're a defer with macaroni headed for a potentially bruising run off. he's hoping to stave off the threat from the right with the help of more mainstream parties. but his biggest boost could come from an

unlikely backer far left. lita john, look melanie shawn who came in 3rd with over a 5th of the vote. coming down on that. we will never lose our trust in democracy. so you must not give a boat to mrs. le pen name, we must not give one boat to mississippi regret in an election that saw the extremes celebrate and traditional parties flatline. the battle lines for france, the future have been drawn you're watching deed of the news. here's a reminder of our main story. ukrainian president followed the minutes lansky says he believes tens of thousands of people have been killed in the weeks long. siege of medieval. germany's foreign minister is calling for more heavy weapons for ukraine in its fight to a pallet brushes invasion. enter watching news coming up in d. w,

and use asia. the president of the minister lensky of ukraine, appeals to south korea for help. asking for weapons. there will be more on pakistan's parliament electing a new prime minister. melissa china will be here with d. w. and use asia after a short break. that's all for me. and don't forget you can stay chewing data, keep up that i know the latest news on our website and go talk to you tomorrow. take care

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